I went on an adventure yesterday!
Every once in a while, I think about a rose that had a most amazing scent. The variety name is Jardins de Bagatelle. On Friday, I happened to do an internet search, and there happened to be these very roses available near someplace called Fillmore, CA. I searched for it, and it was only an hour and a half away! Yay! I went to get it. In the picture below, the blue dot in the upper left corner shows where I was.
The area around the nursery was agricultural. Lots of orange trees. It was so interesting:
The nursery itself was so cool. SO many roses! Wow! The only trouble was that it was a cool day, so the fragrance of the roses was a little blunted.
They had beautiful display gardens. There was even a pond! I will have a pond again some day. Some day…
There were many beautiful roses. This one was so dark!
There were also some interesting signs in the garden. I haven’t thought about this for many years. There was no such thing on Maui.
I drove home on the Pacific Coast Highway. Even though it was an overcast day, it was beautiful.
When I got home, I set the roses in the planter in front of my house. Yes, roses plural. Once I smelled such wonderful smelling roses, I had to get more. Besides my Jardins de Bagatelle, I also got April in Paris and Pope John Paul II.
The Jardins wasn’t blooming, so I couldn’t smell it. I’m glad I got some backups though, because last night I was looking on Bradaptation and found THIS post, where I say I found the variety a second time and wasn’t impressed. Ack!
How lovely! You are definitely making this your home, and that is awesome.
Your trip looks fantastic. That overcast sky is probably partly smoke, right? I saw some graphic that showed the air quality from the Canadian wildfires is pretty bad in your area.